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<span class=large>HABAKKUK</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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The Lord admonishes patience, and promises that the just shall live by faith—The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God—Idols have no power.
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I will</span> stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> answered me, and said, <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Preservation of.">Write</a> the vision, and make <i>it</i> plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
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For the vision <i>is</i> yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 39: 21.">come</a>, it will not tarry.
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Behold, his soul <i>which</i> is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/4a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB faithfulness, steadfastness; TG Faith; TG Perseverance.">faith</a>.
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&#182; Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, <i>he is</i> a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and <i>is</i> as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth <i>that which is</i> not his!  how long?  and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
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Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR plunder, spoil.">booties</a> unto them?
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Because thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 33: 1.">spoiled</a> many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and <i>for</i> the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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&#182; Woe to him that <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Covetousness.">coveteth</a> an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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Thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR devised.">consulted</a> shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned <i>against</i> thy soul.
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For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR a rafter out of the woodwork will witness it.">the</a> beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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&#182; Woe to him that buildeth a town with <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/12a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB bloodshed; TG Cruelty.">blood</a>, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
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Behold, <i>is it</i> not of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/13a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jer. 51: 58; TG Vanity.">vanity</a>?
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 11: 9; TG Earth, Destiny of.">earth</a> shall be filled with the <sup>b</sup><a href="hab/2/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Knowledge about; TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> of the glory of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as the waters cover the sea.
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&#182; Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to <i>him,</i> and makest <i>him</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Word of Wisdom.">drunken</a> also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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Thou art filled <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/16a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR more with shame than with glory; TG Shame.">with</a> shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing <i>shall be</i> on thy glory.
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For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, <i>which</i> made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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&#182; What profiteth the graven <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/18a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 44: 10; TG Idolatry.">image</a> that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
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Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach!  Behold, it <i>is</i> laid over with gold and silver, and <i>there is</i> no breath at all in the midst of it.
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But the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> in his holy temple: let all the earth keep <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/2/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 1: 7.">silence</a> before him.
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